Some of you may have been observant and noticed that Nikto has alerted about the lack of the X-Frame-Options header from web servers. This headers gives hints to the user agent on how it should be handled from within a frame, effectively preventing click-jacking, or the overlaying of information over a frame to fool a user into clicking on something they don't want to.

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of Nikto 2.1.5, and that Nikto is now sponsored by Sunera LLC!

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1200 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1000 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.

This release contains a number of important bug fixes, as well as new functionality and improvements, including: